Hiring FAIL…

I know I shouldn’t. I should revel in the bizarre panic move. I guess that’s what happens when you’re operating from a position of strength.

If Muschamp sabotaged them. Supposedly he hates Jacobs. Could he have intentionally made them think he was coming and the backed out at the last moment, causing them to panic? It’s a little crazy to think that might have happened, but you never know.

the Aubies are going to be longing for the good old days of Tubs. No way this guy does much in the SEC, he couldn’t do much in the Big 12.

to really enjoy the Barfield years. Thank you Jay Jacobs.

at Iowa State… Please Auburn hire this guy!!!

Heck, the Birmingham News published that RichRod was going to be our coach in the print edition and it wasn’t true.

on Rivals.com earlier, and I have to say, I like it. He’s a good defensive coordinator, but I don’t feel threatened. Muschamp would have been better.

Hey, if any team and any fanbase deserves to struggle, it’s Auburn. They’re the biggest scumbags in the SEC. Heck, they’re the biggest scumbags in the Southeast. They’re like a sniveling bowl of dog snot. It turns my stomach to look at them.

Anyone think they’re letting this leak today so the talk-radio circuit doesn’t get it’s jollies off this circus on day one? Also, ESPN will probably be soothing its Heisman part deux Tebowner tonight rather than singing the woeful ballad of Gene Chizik…. Maybe I give Jacobs too much credit.

A poster on al.com with the handle “Vidalsassoon” wrote, “Nick is grinning like a chester cat.”

Perfection.

Oh, and nice hire Auburn. You really knocked it out of the park with that one.

I’d like to point out that he went 0-10 to finish the year. Iowa State is in the Big 12 North. Like the SEC, there are 3 teams in the other division that a team doesn’t play each year. The 3 teams in the Big 12 South that Iowa State didn’t face while going 0-8 in the conference? Texas, Texas Tech, and Oklahoma. Again, those are the 3 teams he DIDN"T face while going winless. He’s 5-19 there over 2 years in his only head coaching experience.

I know Bama has some stories to tell of their own about Athletic Directors, Board of Trustees, etc. since shortly before Stallings left. But geez, is Bobby Lowder and Jay Jacobs screwing things up at the moment.

BTW, an article about the Board and our AD’s over the past 15 years would make for a great series of summertime articles around here………….

Turner Gill…when he takes over K-State or Nebr. or some other midwestern school is going to utterly kick ass. By that point, the Barn will be on their 3rd-4th coach and mired in a decade of mediocrity. Never let it be said that inhaling fertilizer can’t benefit us :)

you want to look, but you know it’s just too gruesome.

I am all for takin’ the Barners out behind the woodshed, but I mean c’mon, for the spirit of competition, for SOMETHING!

The two happiest people about this hire- Nick Saban and Iowa State’s AD.

Meanwhile Auburn people are reported to be tearing up their season ticket order forms. I’d look for Auburn’s spring game to bring in about 12,000 fans, 13,000 if they give some hogs away at half time.

I just checked Track Em Tigers. One guy has given up totally and became a Gator fan. Several others were giving up their season tickets. More than a few are no longer going to contribute to scholarships, etc. They are reeling over there. It’s almost so bad, that I actually feel sorry for them. Then I think about our decade of mediocrity/suckiness, and I don’t recall any Barners offering condolences., just more “Fear the Thumb/Finger” BS. Sorry Barners, what comes around goes around. I do hate the fact that it makes our STATE look retarded…

the folks over at track ‘em tigers… um, aren’t taking this very well. but the iowa state blog, clone chronicles, has an excellent cheat sheet for what wins by their coaches can be converted for.

the folks over at track ‘em tigers… um, aren’t taking this very well. but the iowa state blog, clone chronicles, has an excellent cheat sheet for what wins by their coaches can be converted for.

http://iowastate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=889020

…are the powers that be at the Barn. Whether it was the BOT, Lowder, and/or the 2 Jays that made the ultimate decision, they missed the opportunity to hire a good, successful coach in Turner Gill plus get great publicity to save face in this whole ordeal. With all the grief we got during our coaching search, I don’t feel sorry for them at all. Karma is a bitch.

Could it be that they hired him back as D coordinator for whomever the real head coach is? Maybe someone heard that he was leaving ISU for AU and just assumed it was the head coaching position? I just can’t believe they’re that stupid. Even if true, if the deal isn’t signed yet I can’t imagine they’ll go through with it when they see the fan reaction.

Or maybe somebody in the admin finally got so mad at Louder they decided to make his football program look like the stock market.

I have been on the road for hours Christmasing and JUST saw this….WOW. I just can’t wait to see what they will do next! As a Bama fan, my Christmas gift is that this isn’t us, that someone who made so much fun of my team and their coaching woes is now reaping what they sowed, and my school/team/admin seems very, very stable today! Merry Christmas Bama! Enjoy.

is that I’ll wake up, it will be 2006 and people will laugh when I tell them I had a dream where we hired Nick Saban and shortly after that Auburn and Tennessee both imploded and hired Chizik and Kiffin.

I’m 80-90 percent sure this isn’t a dream. It seems so real.